Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-02-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

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son, and it should be in constant use.
At a recent exhibition in England
where prizes were given for walking
horses, the speed attained was over five
miles an hour.
Fresh-made butter, with dainty flavor,
must always be sold in preference to
butter made three months before it is
put OH the market.
Poultry should have certain proper
ton of salt in their food as well as ami
mails, a. it is necessary to the promotion
Of health and thrift.
Muslin answers all the purposes of
glass for runs ofliltle chicks, as it retains
the warmth longer, and will turn water
If tightly drawn on frame.
The farmer who does not fence in his
stock when living along the line Of a
railroad not only runs the risk Of losing
valuable animals but endangers the lives
of travellers.
when given in connection with grain
food, but when fed exclusively or given
too lavishlythey have a too laxative effect
which quickly runs down the sheep.
Young lambs will begin to come in
the latter part of January, and the ewes
should be well sheltered. 1t does not
pay to have the lambs born in the fields.
Give them plenty of warmth at first.
The fleece Of Merino sheep is some
times SO thick and heavy that in YER
mont and Wisconsin, when the sheep
are sheared early in the season, they are
blanketeC to prevent them from becom-
ing chilled.
II a Holstein cow, giving forty quarts
of milk per Gay, and requiring no more
room than common COW, giving ten
quarts, can be raised as easily as the in
ferior one. is it wise in farmers to keep
the poor milker?
Sheep require careful watching, for if
they get into trouble of any sort, as get
ting down in gullies or fastened between
logs or fence rails, they become so
frightened and discouraged they sue
cumb at once and die.
Compelling cows to drink ice water
In winter does not tend to promote the
flow OF milk. Warmth is as essential as
good feeding, and tepid water will great
ly aid digestion and invigorate the cows
i'm severe weather.
II your garden plot is selected, rake
it over as soon as the weather will per-
nit and burn up every vestigs Of grass
and weeds, so as to destroy not only
seeds but insects. A covering of straw,
leaves or stalks, burned over the ground.
will be an advantage.
Dry coal ashes, well sifted, may be
utilized with advantage in the poultry
house as an absorbent. The floor can
not well be cleaned when the droppings
are in frozen condition, but ashes or
dirt should be sprinkled over the floor
three times week.
The best record. of animals have al
ways been secured when good care and
management were bestowed upon them.
No matter how great the capacity of the
animal may be, the condition must be
favorable for the greatest amount of
work possible.
Professor Stewart makes the state
ment that no grain should be fed alone
to cattle that are being fattened. When
grain and hay are fed separately the
bedefit derived is not as great when they
are combined, as they are more easily
digested when fed together.
Make drains and thus allow the water
to run off as fast as the snow melts, in
order to avoid slush and dampness in
the barnyard; but be careful not to al
low of any escape Of the liquid matter
from the manure heap. Use some kind
Of absorbent and save it.
OF the different roots, potatoes are
most liable to injury by freezing; beets
next, and carrots still less, partly be-
cause carrots usually grow most of their
roots beneath the surface. Parsnips can
be left in the ground all winter, and are
rather better for some freezing.
1t has been well said that butter-mak-
ers have given too little attention to fla
vor and too much attention to color.
But will not flavor 60 az far toward
selling butter as color? The butter max
ers have only themselves to blame for
allowing the standard of their goods to
deteriorats.
Some OF the best paying farms in the
United States consist of almost pure
white sand, but they are devoted to
fruits and poultry, thus economizing
labor and space. The success of a farm
does not depend so much upon the quail
lty Of the soil as upon the kind of crops
and'mode Of management.
The great rancho of L. j. Rose, at
Los Angeles, CAL, embracing in all
about 1850 acres of land, largely planted
with grapevines and orange trees, has
beer conveyed toa an Englisbman for the
sum Of sl,037, 800. 1t is expected to
pass into the hands of a company, of
which the capital stock will be 50, 0O0, 600.
Spring pigs should not be farrowed
too early. 1t does not require very Sc
we're weather to kill young pig. April
is soon enough. If given good start
in life under favorable conditions pig
will weigh as much at 9 months of age
as it will at year old when exposed to
the cold during the first months of its
life.
The heaviest profit from sheep is al
ways secured when mutton and lamb
ore rnsda snepislities instaad IF wool